- 2 - The Acadians then living in Rustico , Itelpec, Tignish and , needed the services of a priest so grievously that the Abbe de Calonne leaving his home at Port-la-joie (now known as the Warren Farm ) went to their assistance, and for a short time resided in Rustico and attended «11 the Acadian missions. At length, finding the labours of a missionary priest in so wild a country too severe for a man of his advanced years, he at the earnest solicitation of the Bishop of Quebec , repaired to the town of Rivieres where be became Chaplain to the Ursuline Convent , and where he died in 1822. Thus Charlottetown became again dependent upon the occasional visits of the good and over worked Father I- .c2achern, v/ho for some years after the departure of the ^.bbe Richard, who succeeded the Abbe de Calonne in Ruatico, was the only priest in the whole Province or indeed in the Mainland for many miles around. At that time but e small number of Catholics of divers national¬ ities were scattered about Charlottetown end its envirous, and no attempt had been made to organize them into a regular congregation. Father KcEkchern , thougn on the best possible terms with the authorities, wa3 not officially recognized as a Catholic Clergyman and had never ventured upon wearing in public any form of dress that would denote his ecclesiastical state. 0 R the morning of the 1/jth of July 1812, a schooner, the Ar.gelique by name, dropped anchor in Charlottetown Harbour , and from it, gorgeous in purple soutane and gleaming cross of gold, landed the Right Rev. Joseph Octave Plessis , Bishop of Quebec , attended by five priests all in ecclesiastical attire. Upon the river's brink waited Commissary General Holland , who welcomed the Bishop to the city, and requested him to name tne hour that would be most convenient for him to call on the Lieutenant Governor . That dignitary, Kr. Desbarres, although eighty five years of age, was so active that at the first news of the declaration of war witn the United States, he had called out the Kilitia of the town, and at the moment of the Eisner's arrival was actively engaged in reviewing the force. Having named evening a3 the time at which he could most conveniently call at